Responsible Quotes - page 3

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism. (Pierre Salinger)
If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat. View quote
Vic Snyder
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich. View quote
Warren Beatty
I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately. View quote
Gordon Brown
"Life" in this "society" being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of "society" being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex. View quote
Valerie Solanas
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. View quote
Dennis Potter
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department. View quote
Alain de Botton
I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job. View quote
Doug Stanhope
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball. View quote
Branch Rickey
... the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years. (Edward Heath)
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. View quote
Truman Capote
In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen. View quote
Ted Kennedy
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality? View quote
Jack Valenti
My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests...responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments. View quote
Jacques Delors
This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. View quote
Jacques Delors
As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. View quote
Viktor Frankl
I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle. View quote
Kanye West
In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. (Henry Ward Beecher)
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse physical or mental stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be one with it; or fulfill it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy. View quote
Aleister Crowley
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. View quote
W. H. Auden